Jim Caruso
Meet Jim
Jim Caruso
"This impish, twinking-eyed performer exudes the buoyant spirits of a contemporary vaudevillian."
- Stephen Holden, New York Times
Jim Caruso recently appeared as Theodore Whitman in Follies In Concert at Carnegie Hall. He made his Broadway debut alongside Liza Minnelli in the Tony-winning Liza’s At The Palace!, celebrating the music of Kay Thompson and the Williams Brothers—the subsequent recording earned a Grammy nomination. A celebrated force in the nightclub scene, Caruso has won nine BroadwayWorld Awards, seven MAC Awards (including 2022 Show of the Year), two BackStage Bistro Awards, and the Sidney Meyer Award for sold-out runs at Birdland, The Oak Room, and The Russian Tea Room. His duo album with Billy Stritch, The Sunday Set (Club44 Records), hit #4 on the iTunes Jazz chart, and the recent re-release of his solo recording The Swing Set ( Club44 Records) has remained on Spotify’s Jazz Vocal Playlist for three months. Caruso has headlined at Carnegie Hall, The White House, and The Carlyle Hotel, where he and Stritch have been weekly mainstays at Bemelmans Bar for over a decade. He performed with his vocal trio, Wiseguys, at President Clinton’s Inaugural festivities and First State Dinner, and has shared the Carnegie Hall stage with Barry Manilow, Michael Feinstein, Dionne Warwick, and Rosemary Clooney.
On screen, he has co-starred with Kathie Lee Gifford in Showtime’s Personal Assistant and appeared in the sitcom Café DuArt. As a writer and producer, Caruso has contributed to InStyle Magazine and produced for networks including E! and Fox Television. He’s hosted Broadway On Broadway in Times Square, the MAC Awards at Town Hall, and the Drama Desk webcasts, with radio and podcast credits on BroadwayWorld, Legends 100.3 FM, and his award-winning Here! On Broadway podcast. Since 2002, he has hosted the legendary Jim Caruso’s Cast Party every Monday at Birdland in NYC, and has taken the show on the road to venues in London, Los Angeles, Las Vegas, Palm Springs, San Francisco, Chicago, Dallas, Orlando, Pittsburgh, St. Louis, and on the high seas. When the pandemic hit, Caruso launched Pajama Cast Party, an entirely virtual version of the show that streamed worldwide for 82 consecutive weeks and earned a Summit Award. Follow Jim at Jim-Caruso.com and on Instagram @JimCaruso1.